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Have you noticed that dreams of a life like the one in the first photo so often lead to the realities of the second?
Sadly
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Flags of Gondor and Rohan Spotted at Student Protests in Belgrade
It is symbolic to see the banners of these realms in Belgrade of all places, given that the fortress of Minas Tirith, standing at the very eastern spur of the White Mountains, is built of white stone and renowned for its White Tower, the Tower of Ecthelion, crowning the uppermost
Art · Observations
The Alchemical Double-Headed Eagle
But in essence, beyond doubt, it is a phoenix
Books · Observations · Heritage · Society
Shakespeare's birthplace to be decolonised over concerns about British cultural superiority
The house where Shakespeare was born is to be DECOLONISED over fears of "white supremacy". The initiators claim that Shakespeare's genius may be seen as a symbol of "British cultural superiority". The people who have usurped power in Britain hate England, Europe, Christianity and
Faith · Art · Observations · Ethnography
Folk sayings for Evdokia's Day and a fresco from St George's Church in Staro Nagoričane
15 March, the day of the Hieromartyr Theodotus, Bishop of Cyrenia, is marked in the folk calendar as Fedot the Wind-Bringer, Fedot the Snow-Drift, Fedot of Spring, Gale-Whirlers. Evdokia never asked Fedot, and got the spring ready anyway. And he: now he tears the roof off the
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Prince Andrey in Speransky’s Commission and the Codes of Napoleon, Justinian and Hammurabi
The Legislative Commission has existed for a hundred and fifty years, has cost millions and has accomplished nothing. Do you remember how Prince Andrei did not wish to join the commission for the compilation of laws, pleading that it required a legal education, which he did not possess? And Speransky,
Books · Observations · Humour
I don't know about you, but for me the titles of Lenin's works are literally a set of moods for every day:
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back "Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder Materialism and Empirio-Criticism Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism What Is to Be Done, at Last
NB! · Observations
When You Decide Simply to Go with the Flow
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A strange science all the same, this physiognomy of yours
Books · Observations
Turgenev on cosmopolitanism and national identity in “Rudin”, written far from his homeland
Rudin's misfortune is that he does not know Russia, and this is indeed a great misfortune. Russia can do without any one of us, but not one of us can do without her. Woe to him who thinks otherwise, and double woe to him who actually does do
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Amazon forest cleared for a road to the COP30 climate summit
The Amazon forest is being felled to build a road to an environmental summit. This world has no chance 🤦🏿♀️
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